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ZODIAC I & 2
EXXON VALDEZ-OIL SPILL-PELECANUS CRISPUS
INTAGLIO SERIES
HIDE FROM “THEM”
INSIDE & OUT
WHAT IS THE SPACE OF NIGHTMARES
AND DREAMS ACTUALLY MADE OF?
UNTITLED (ENCAUSTIC)
IN THE BODY OF A CREATURE
moodboard
biography
REM HIVE – REM SCAPE
site – specific installation
beeswax, gauze, metal wire
2026
REM HIVE – REM SCAPE is a monumental site-specific installation that represents the materialized space of the subconscious. The artist perceives it as a constantly evolving archive composed of dreams, memories, emotions, and experiences that accumulate and expand over the course of a lifetime. She translates this immaterial space into a system of suspended panels made of beeswax and gauze, whose fragility, translucence, and mutability allude to the very nature of dreaming.
The installation appears as a single organic whole, which, upon closer inspection, breaks down into individual layers—records of dreams and traces of the subconscious. Dreams are not depicted here through specific images, but are present through the material, space, and atmosphere. Beeswax and gauze, materials associated with protection, healing, and preservation, become a metaphor for caring for the fragile contents of the human mind.
Through its open, permeable space and the characteristic scent of wax, the installation opens up a field for individual imagination and associations. The viewer enters a landscape oscillating between dream and reality, where memory, the subconscious, and the shifting layers of personal experience intertwine.
infoEmma Štěpánová is a multidisciplinary artist based in Prague, Czech Republic. In her work she deals with the relationship and boundaries between consciousness and the subconscious, the motifs of dreams and nightmares, but also environmental themes related to the devastation of aquatic ecosystems. When exploring the changing nuances of these interactions, she focuses on both existence of these matters and their extinction. During her internship at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden Štěpánová developed her interest in working with beeswax – medium that offers both technological and expressive possibilities. She is currently focusing her work around space and how it can become an autonomous element of the work, searching for ways in which materials and their boundaries can be pushed in their natural form.
EMMA ŠTĚPÁNOVÁ
stepanova.em@seznam.cz
@emma__stepanova bioEDUCATION
2023 – x
The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
// studio Sculpture 2
2023 – 2020
Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno University of Technology // studio Sculpture 1
2020 – 2016
Secondary School of Applied Arts Uherské Hradiště // ceramic design
EXHIBITIONS
2026
I Caress the World with Your Roots – Světova 1 in Prague, Czech Republic
/ group exhibition
2025
Synapse – Kobka 17 (GHMP) in Prague, Czech Republic / group exhibition
Passing Through – Hochschule für bildende Künste in Dresden, Germany
/ group exhibition
2024
Memory of Memory – Contemporary Art Festival in Prostějov, Czech Republic
/ group exhibition
Archeology of the Present – public space interventions in Tallinn, Estonia
/ group exhibition
Pomezí identity – Stará Radnice gallery in Vsetín, Czech Republic
/ group exhibition
Rybářská show – Open Studios Festival in Brno, Czech Republic
/ group exhibition
Archeology of the Present – in collaboration with Center of Polish sculpture in Oroń, Poland
/ group exhibition
2023
Contemporary Art Festival – Gallery of Contemporary Art in Prostějov, Czech Republic
/ curator
Sochy mezi květy – Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
/ group exhibition
Overlaps – Zámek Gallery in Prostějov
/ group exhibition
2022
Pokoje – Exhibition of Young Art in Hrzán Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
/ group exhibition
Setkali se zas – Stará Radnice Gallery in Vsetín, Czech Republic / group exhibition
Prototyp – art installation at PROTOTYP festival in Brno, Czech Republic
Tíže – Industra Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic
/ group exhibition
Sochy mezi květy – Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
/ group exhibition
GROUP PERFORMANCES
2022
We Stand Behind Ukraine – 3 hours, Prague, Czech Republic / performers: Emma Štěpánová, Andrea Krnáčová, Jan Petr, Zuzana Šrubařová, Sara Wollasch, Terezie Rausová, Petra Mrňová, Nela Maruškevičová, Becka McFadden, Antonín Brinda, Ay Lak Yakubouskaya
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